Title
ESD protection structures for BCD5 smart power technologies.
Abstract
In this work we present new ESD protections structures, compatible with the in BCD5 smart power technology, based on an optimization of the "Big-Clamp" approach. By adopting dedicated Vdd and Vss ESD rails and by replacing the standard diodes with two BJTs, adequately connected to the Vdd and Vss ESD rails, we have obtained ESD robustness in excess of 8KV HBM for 5V supply voltage structures. By adopting a suitable "Darlington"-LDMOS we have obtained 7 kV and 4 kV HBM threshold for ESD protection structures suitable for 20 V and 40 V supply voltages respectively. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1016/S0026-2714(01)00188-3
Microelectronics Reliability
Field
DocType
Volume
Smart power,Systems engineering,Engineering,Electrical engineering,Reliability engineering
Journal
41
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
0026-2714
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
L. Sponton111.50
L. Cerati211.50
G. Croce310.82
F. Chrappan410.48
C. Contiero510.48
G. Meneghesso65222.83
E. Zanoni7137.01